Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 6

The clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, he turned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greater doubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the left belonged to him. "

Who acts: clerk, man, pair · What happens: turn, speak, do, look, be, belong · To what, where: greater doubt, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, man, pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spoke	cc
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 turned	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 turned	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 turned	nsubj
19	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 turned	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 goloshes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 goloshes	det
24	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 look	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 doubt	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 doubt	cc
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 doubt	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 doubt	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 doubt	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 doubt	case
32	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 doubt	amod
33	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	parataxis
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 doubt	nmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 belonged	mark
37	to	to	ADP	_	36 as	fixed
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	48 belonged	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pair	det
40	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 belonged	nsubj
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 right	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 right	det
43	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pair	nmod
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 left	cc
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 left	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 left	det
47	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 right	conj
48	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 doubt	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 belonged	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the clerk					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	the clerk not said here				to the man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
3	do	past · perfect	man				with servant	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	man					tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	man not said here			again	at the goloshes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at golosh=Theme
6	is	past	man		greater doubt	now		tree rules
7	belong	past	the pair on the right or the left	servant				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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